The System Prevailed
Our country is better for it, regardless of your politics
The system worked. It held, thank goodness.
No man is above the law in America, at least for the time being. On Thursday our justice system’s bottom line read like a Joe Burrow passing stat in a 7-on-7 drill: Thirty-four for 34. Thirty-four charges, 34 convictions of felonies in the first degree.
The outcome wasn’t anything that Donald Trump said it was, in the aftermath. It wasn’t a “disgrace.’’ It wasn’t a “highly political, unconstitutional, and election interfering witch hunt,’’ as Trump proclaimed on social media. It wasn’t “a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is corrupt.’’
It was an American citizen found guilty by a jury of his peers of every crime for which he was charged. It was 12 ordinary New Yorkers, agreed to by Trump’s legal team, looking at the evidence they were given and rendering a decision.
No man is above the law.
